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• There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

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  Differences, Giving, Feelings

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “Diamonds in the Dust: 366 Sparkling Devotions”, p.474, Zondervan

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• One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

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  God, Neat And Tidy, Knowing

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• Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

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  Rights, Needs, Surrender

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1994). “Joni Eareckson Tada: Her Story”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

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  Prayer, Heart, Longing

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• When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

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  Jesus, Knowing, Suffering

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• I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

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  Desire, Healed

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• Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

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  People, Needs, Need God

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• Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century hurts and distress. The unbelieving world-your neighbors, the guy at the gas station, the postman, the lady at the cleaners, your boss at work-is observing the way we undergo our trials.

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  Hurt, Guy, Boss

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• If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

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  Believe, Care, Vulnerable

  "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

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  Order, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

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  Sleep, Eye, Wake Up

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• When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.

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  Giving, Answers, Honestly

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• God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

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  Growing Up, Hate, Teaching

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Talking

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• Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart.

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  Hurt, Life Changing, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

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  Jesus, Real, Healing

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• God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

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  Faith, Religious, Suffering

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

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  Hate, Order, Permit

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• Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

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  Heart, Circumstances

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2012). “A Thankful Heart in a World of Hurt”, p.6, Rose Publishing Inc

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

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  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Poison

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.

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  Jesus, Eye, Heart

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• The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

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  Life Is, Application, Our Lives

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

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  Christian, Heart, Heaven

  Joni Eareckson-Tada (2010). “Heaven: Your Real Home”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

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  Christian, Attitude, People

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1995). “The Life and Death Dilemma: Families Facing Health Care Choices”, p.125, Zondervan

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